Month: April 2016

Well, its been a long time since I last wrote a blog post. I’ve set up a new site and moved over a few old posts, but I can’t seem to find the time to write up anything I’ve been working on.

A few weeks ago I passed my Technician, General, and Amateur Extra exams, so I am now officially a licensed amateur radio operator. I still don’t have a radio, but I did pick up two of the CW Pixie kits and built a 40m dipole.

Now that I can work with CW, I was thinking about using an arduino to encode text and transmit morse code and decode the tones coming in from the pixie. To get started, I knocked up a c program that converts the input arguments to morse code. For example: